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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Nc. 248. 



«Jfl Hahits" 8rc. (Vol. ix., p. 301.). — The re- 

 ference to this quotation ia Dryden's Ovid, b. xv., 

 " Of the Pythagorean Philosophy," lines 155-6. 



J. C. G. 



liverpool. 



Morgan Odoherty (Vol. viii., p. 11. ; Vol. ix., 

 p. 209.). — It is very possible, although quite new 

 to me, that the author of " Cyril Thornton " was 

 one of the writers (for there must have been more 

 than one) who assumed this well-known nom de 

 guerre in Blachwo.od. But I had always identified 

 Captain Hamilton with another military contri- 

 butor who figures much in the early volumes of 

 Maga, " Major Spencer Moggridge of the Prince's 

 Own," from the resemblance which the latter's 

 descriptions of the different battles bear to those 

 in the annals of the peninsular campaigns. 



I am surprised to see that S. never heard that 

 Odoherty was supposed to be Dr. Maginn. Even 

 before Fraser's Magazine came out, Maginn was 

 universally reputed to be the man, and that pe- 

 riodical fixed the name indelibly upon him ; for 

 whatever doubt there might be as to the identity 

 of the correspondent of Blackwood, in Fraser 

 there was no mistaking it for an instant. See the 

 notice of Maginn in the "Gallery of Literary 

 Characters" {Fraser's Magazine, vol. iii.). 



J. S. Warden. 



Ml^ttHantani. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, BTC. 



Mr. Roach Smith, who is about to edit a work on the 

 subject, has reprinted, from his Collectanea Antigua, an 

 article on The Faussett Collection of Anglo- Saxon Anti- 

 quities. Mr. Smith writes strongly on this national 

 grievance j and we must say that the dissatisfaction with 

 which the refusal of the Trustees of the British Museum 

 to purchase them has been received, has only been 

 equalled by the amazement at the amount of ignorance 

 displayed in the House of Commons when that refusal 

 was under discussion. 



Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson have recently con- 

 cluded the sale of the highly curious library of Mr. J. D. 

 Gardner, of Chatteris. The Catalogue contained 2457 

 lots, and produced no less than 8171/. ; a sufficient proof 

 thait what Theodore Hook said of paving stones, may now 

 he applied to good old books, — they are looking up. The 

 following are the prices of some of the principal lots: 

 Lot 29. Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Vinezia, 1525, only one 

 other copy known, 43A 30. Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, 

 Vinezia, 1539, with autographs of Mary Richemond, wife 

 of Henry, Duke of Richmond, natural son of Henry VIII., 

 and of Sir Henry Pickeringe, Queen Elizabeth's ambas- 

 sador and suitor, 18/. 15». 76. Pentateuch, translated by 

 William Tyndale, Marlborow, in the Lande of Hesse, 

 1530, having three leaves facsimiled, 159/1 77. Newe 

 Testament ; Tindal's second edition, printed at Antwerp 

 in 1534, wanting beginning and end, but having these 

 deficiencies admirably facsimiled in imitation of the 

 original printing, 4.7L 78. New Testament, translated by 

 Mylea Coverdale, 1538, 82/L 193. Byble, translated by 

 Myles Coverdale, 1660, 38^ 194. Newe Testament, by 



W. Tindale, 1536, 37/. 195. Newe Testament, in English 

 and Latin, by Tindale and Erasmus, 1548, 39/. 10s. 196. 

 Newe Testament, in English and Latin, 1549, 35/. 197. 

 New Testament; first edition of the Rhemish version, 

 printed at Rheims, 1582, 15/. 238. A Collection of the 

 Writings of the Fanatic Giordano Bruno, burnt in 160O 

 at Rome as an Atheist, 20/. 337. Boccaccio's Decamerone 

 Quinta, 15-27, 50/. 376. The Phylobyblo of Richard de 

 Bury, Bishop of Durham, one of the earliest bibliophilists, 

 printed at Cologne about 1483, 10/. 10s. 404. Caxton's 

 translation of the book named the Royall, printed by 

 Wynkyn de Worde, 1507, 33/. 408. Cervantes* Don 

 Quixote; first editions of both parts — Madrid, 1605-15, 

 30/. 409. Cervantes' Novelas Exemplares, first edition, 

 Madrid, 1613, 12/. 10s. 415. Biblia Sacra Latinfe; the 

 famous Vulgate edition on large paper — Roma, 1592, 

 35/. 417. Byble; first edition of Matthew's translation, 

 1537, 150/. 419. Byble; first edition of Cranmer's, or 

 the Great Bible, printed by Grafton and Whitchurch, 

 121/. 420. Cranmer's Bible, 1549, 44/. 421. Bible; first 

 Protestant translation by Myles Coverdale, printed at 

 Zurich, 1535 ; wanting title-page and first leaf of dedi- 

 cation, which are in facsimile by Harris, 365/. 422. 

 Bible; Matthew's version revised by Beeke, 1549, 40/. 

 423. Bible; by Mathewes, 1551, 45/. 428. Bible; with 

 Sceptical Notes, erroneously attributed to Pope Ganga- 

 nelli, 1784, 15/. 15». 460. Booke of Jason; printed by 

 W. Caxton, 1475, 105/. 461. History of Kevnard the 

 Foxe, W. Caxton, 1481, 195/. 462. Golden Le'gende, by 

 W. Caxton, 1483, 230/. 403. Book calliid Cathon, by 

 W. Caxton, 1483, 83/. 520. Cocker's Arithmetic, 1078, 

 8/. 5s. 638. Dialogues of Creatures Morah'sed, no date, 

 30/. 649. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, printed by Wyn- 

 kyn de Worde, 1498, 245/. 650. Boecius de Consolatione 

 Philosophiae, printed by W. Caxton, without date, with 

 two leaves facsimiled, 70/. 681. De Bry's Collection of 

 early Voyage.s and Travels, in 25 part.s, with quaint en- 

 gravings, 240/. 682. De Bry's French Version of Hanoi's 

 Virginia, Francofurti, 1590, 35/. 1120. Homeri Opera, 

 first edition, in Greek, Florentia, 1488, 49/. 1137. Apoca- 

 Ij'psis Joanni.s, first edition of this celebrated block-l)Ook 

 of 48 pages, 160/. 1191. Hull's Description of the earliest 

 Steam-Tug, 1737, 7/. 12.?. 6d 1210. Banquet of Jests, 

 1657, 10/. 1335. Book of Common Praver, 1549, 51/. 10s. 

 1336. Book of Common Prayer, 1559, <:47. 1337. Book of 

 Common Prayer, 1552, 29/.' 1547. Psalter in metre, by , 

 Archbishop Parker, no date, 40/. - Os. 1700. Prynier for 

 the Use of Sarum; Rouen, 1555. 15/. 1800. Pilgrymage 

 of Perfeccion, printed by Wynkyn de Wonle, 1531, 31/. 

 1914. Sannazaro's Arcadia Vinezia, Aldo, 1514, printed on 

 vellum, 30/. 1999. A complete set of the Philosophical" 

 Transactions of the Roj-al Society, from 16(55 to 1830 inclu- 

 sive, 78/. 2022. Prynne's Collection of Records, 3 vols., 

 1665-70, 100/. 1 027. Purchas his Pilgrime.s, a Collection 

 of Voyages and Travels, in 5 vols., 1625-26, 55/. Hi.f. 2058, 

 Shakspeare's Comedies and Tragedies, first eilition, 1623, 

 250/.; the second edition, 1632, sold for 18/. 10.* ; ther 

 third, 1663 (burnt in the Fire of London), for 25/. ; and 

 the fourth, 1685, for 13/. 2154. Tindale's Parable of the 

 Wicked Mammon, printed at IMarlborow in 1528, 10/. 

 2195. Shak.speare's jSlerchant of Venice, first edition, 1600, 

 32/.; Midsummer Night's Dream. IGOO, 12/. 15s.; llenry 

 the Fifth, 1608, 8/. lOs. ; King Lear, 1008, 20/.; Pericles, 

 1609, 21/. 2204. Sidney's Arcadia, first edition, 1590, 34/. 

 2218. Spenser's Faerie Queene, 2 vols., 1590-96, first 

 edition, 16/. 2326. Walton's Angler, 165.3, first edition, 

 10/. 17«. 0</. 2433. Watton's Si)eciilum Christiani, printed 

 by Machlinia, without date, Kl/. 10s. 



Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell, on Friday 

 next, a most interesting colic tion of MSS., MS. Note 

 Books, Letters, &c, of the poet Gray. 



